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A Successful car-Hcater Experiment

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MlSSEAroLIs, Dec. 6.-The gasoline
safety car heater, u recent invention, was
put to a severe test here Saturday. a
dummy coach, built of intiammablc ma
%terials, was fitted up with the heater and
sent plunging down an embankment.
h car was completely wrecked, but it
did not catch fire.
Duluth will send a delegate to WASH
ington this winter to look after harbor
improvement interests.
John b. King, a prominent South Da-
kota man, is in Washington urging the
opening of the Sioux reservation.
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, and DIR.
kempster, his physician. say they know
nothing of gold being discovered near
Oshkosh.
o. +. Gibbs, a Chicago dealer in seeds
for the past fifteen years, made an assign
ment Wednesday. His liabilities are es-
timated at $4,000.
ask County Clerk Gatfney to show cause
why he should not be removed from
Office for drunkenness.
The Minnesota & Northwestern earn
ings for the month of November were
$3.50. los, or an increase of 1lS, 301 over
the same month last year.
The Rochester, MINI, electric light
company will be in running order on the
10Th inst. A large number of citizens
have made arrangements to use the light.
The district Judge at Clinton, Iowa, has
granted Il temporary injunction restrain
ing the city of Lyons from accepting an
electric dynamo ordered by less than Il
majority of the city council.
The Ohio crop report shows a very I'M
satisfactory state of affairs. The yield of
all the cereals is much below the average,
and it is estimated that the wheat har-
vest will fall short about 49, 900, 900
| bushels.
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A WHEAT BLOCKADE,

Farmers and Business Men of st. Thomas,
OAK. Greatly Inconvenience Thereby.
ST. THOMAS, ID. T., Dec. 6.--The wheat
blockade continues and farmers still
have to pile their sacks on the ground
and return home without being able to
dispose of the grain. The elevator capa-
city, which amounts to some 375,G0O
bushels, was completely filled on Satur-
day last, with $50 wagons, by actual
count, waiting to be %unloaded, contain
ing at a low estimate 10000 bushels.
Farmers and business men alike feel
Appriarpd
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The Department Of Justice.

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.-The annual re-
port of Attorney General Garland gives
a full account of the business of the de-
partment of justice during the last fiscal
year, together with the statistics of crime
against the United States. The number
of ordinary suits now pending in the
court of claims is LILO, involving the
sum of Sl4, $50, 900. The petitions filed
III the French spoliation cases number
$3.50, representing, 2,4S6 vessels and
about $50, 000, 900. The amount reported
in favor of claimants in eighty-one of
these cases passed upon is about $$4225, 900,
VARYING. in sums from SG6 to Sal. BIS.
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To Form u New Department..

W%AsnISGToN, Dec. 6.-R. w. Town
send, of Illinois, has prepared bill ere.
ating a new executive department, to he
known rs the department of industries
and public works. 1t will consolidate the
agricultural, labor, meteorological, patent
and other bureaus, together with the in
terstate and fish commissions,
national observatory and geological and
public land surveys. These important
bureaus are now scattered through va
rious departments where assignments
are utterly %inconguous and unsystematic.
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1911, 0 .a77.66. The ordinary expendi-
lures were 1915, s35,42s. 12, leaving a sur
plus of $50, 567, $40. 81. AS compared with
the fiscal year 1886, the receipts for 1887
have increased 1874, 1868, $50. 60. The in.
crease of expenditures was $25, 449, 041. Al,
leaving n net increase of $25, All, 941.47.
Excluding the sinking fund the esti.
mated expenditures for 1888 will be
$s1s, $50, 634. 36, showing q surplus of
Sl0I. ::l:5S. 365 4.
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I'll M. & N. w. SOLD.

Arrangements Made at Dubuque for the
Consolidation of the Stickney Roads.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Dec. AT a meeting
OF the directors here the Minnesota G.
Northwestern railroad was sold and
transferred to the Chicago, st. Paul &:
Kansas City, and the whole Stickney sys-
TEN will hereafter be called by that title.
Ties ystem now becomes an Iowa corpora
ton, with headquarters at Dubuque.
rectors were present to meet the Du-
buQue directors.
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TIE Northwest News ono Of =,

TIE Northwest News, one of the
leading democratic organs of Dakota,
is fearful of the result in the presiden-
tial election next year. 1t says in
speaking Of democratic chances that
sit will not do to ignore the fact that
democratic ascendency hangs by a
very slender thread, despite the re-
suit in New York. New Jersey has
gone republican and with the party
disrupted there as it is, under the lead
of Macpherson, it will hardly again go
Democratic. BY the Interior depart.
ment antics, Indiana threatens to go
the same way. Connecticut never
was reliable. The democratic majori-
ty i'll Virginia is only about 1000.
Hearst made California republican
for ten years more. BY a 'cussed''
territorial policy every western state
will be made republican soldier than
ever. New York, herself, may not be
next year where she is now. \ dicta
torial policy that pays every attention
to bosses and non to the people, vii
bring its rich reward of overwhelm
ing defeat and it ought to do So"
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Tho Omaha Grant.

WASHINGTON, Dec. e.-Acting- Com.
missioner Stockslager, of the general
land office, has sent to the secretary of
the interior lists for his approval of lands
due the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis a.
Omaha Railroad company under recent
decisions. The lists give the railroad
10000 acres more than the decision of
Commissioner Sparks. Secretary Lamar
las since anproNed the lists.
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Franco.f.nclish Tclcrraphv.

LONDON, Dec. G-Thc negotiations be-
tween England and France looking to CO.
operation in the working of the channel
telegraph wires promise to result favora-
bly,. France, rs well as England, refuses
to- renew the concession to the submarine
company, which, thus nonplussed, will
be obliged to sell OH Iingland's terms.
England, it is thought. would reduce the
rate to 2 ponce per word.
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TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION.
A Bill to Be introduced for the Exclusion
of Undesirable Foreigners.

of Undesirable Foreigners.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-Sentor Palmer,
Of Michigan. will introduce in the senate
at the earliest possible opportunity after
the organization of that body a bill pre-
pared by him for the purpose of regulat-
ing and restricting immigration to the
United States by keeping out persons who
seem likely to be undesirable citizens.
The principal feature of the bill is a
provision which, if it become law, will
require every person of foreign birth who
contemplates emigration to the United
States to provide himself with a certii-
cate from the United States consul for
the district of his residence "setting
forth substantially that the said consul is
satisfied, upon diligent inquiry, that he
IS a suitable and desirable person for resi-
denee and citizenship in the United
states The bill provides for instruc-
tons to consuls Int fixes penalties for
any violation of the law,
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TIE message of President Clevc-
land to congress ignores all other inn
p%ortant subjects and is devoted eNclu-
sively to the tariff question and the
gist of the whole thing is contained
in two words-frec trade. 1t will
meet with approval by the free trad
ers, but if Cleveland is nominated for
president he can never carry New
York or New Jersey VI d platform
fashioned after his message.
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II J;..;.s, t:itEVY. "S
ignal;'n wltil Monday until the dcvel
opnrnts "f yesterday made further
po>1p"ncnient impossible. strength
ems the conviction that PROV
ldtnce s~llpervened to bring
about the tall of the president of the last
French republic Oh the calendar day that
witnessed the overthrow of the republi-
can system Of government twenty-five
years ago.
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Duluth Land Business,

DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. 7.-During the
past eleven months the number of cash
entries at the Duluth land office has been
l,43O. against 4e3 last year. Homcsteuds
for the same time number OPS. against
24O for the comparative period in 1886.
One hundred applications for Northern
Pacific indemnity lands have already
| been fixed.
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The Strike Was a Failure.

CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-The strike of the
book and job printers is ended. Typo
graphical Union No. 16 held a special
meeting Sunday afternoon and declared
that the 400 strikers must return to work
on the basis of ten hours a day for $1Sper
week. This action of the union was
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Handsome Present for the Pope.

BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 2.-Thc Redemp-
torist fathers of the province of Balti-
more have had prepared for presentation
to the pope on the occasion Of his golden
jubilee, n combined writing desk and
bookcase. 1t is a magnificent work of
art, being a pictorial history carved in
wood of the growth of the Catholic
church in America, and is one of the
finest pieces OF workmanship ever turned
Out in this country.
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The War Dcpartment,

W~AsHlNG1oN, Dec. 1.-The annual sc
port of the secretary of war shows that
The expenditures made by the department
during the last fiscal year amounted TO
Sll,3s6. 1865. The estimates for the next
fiscal year aggregate S553.333S 40. against
an appropriation for the current year of
S31 n1S ol1
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NORTHWEST NEWS.
ASummary Of Important Events
Occurring Since Our
Last Issue.
Items Gathered From All Parts Of
This Great Section for Our
Readers.

lEooUo1s, D. T., Dec. 5.-sunday after
noon a passenger train from the South
got stuck in the snow a mile west Of here,
and was followed by n passenger train
from the East, half q mile behind. The
former sent a brakeman back to flag,
but the engineer had his cab window
closed and did not see the second train,
and crashed into the rear coach, COM
pletely telescoping it. Most of the
passengers saw the train coming in time
to get out. The few who were in the chr
escaped with bruises.
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Can,t Tear Themselves Awax.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 5.-It is UNI
derstood here that the Western Base Ball
league intends making a bitter fight to
prevent Kansas city from leaving it next
season to enter either of the big associa-
lions, or, as is more probable, the new
Western association to include only large
cities
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Very Sensational.

LONDON, Dec. 5.-Thc Post prints IL
sensational story about American Feniuns
being hired by the Parnellitcs to wreck
the train on which Lord Harrington and
Mr.. GOschen were to come to Dublin two
weeks ago. Failing i'll accomplishing
this they have laid in wait to waylay him
but have been prevented by the ever
watchful care of the police.
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Looking Out for Dynamite.

New YORK, Dec. CA rule has been
adopted at the piers of the several steam
ship companies by which all persons cx-
cept those having passes from the COM
panies are denied admission to the piers.
The measure is said to be a %precaution
against dynamite.
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Activity fin the Navy Yard.

NEW YORK. Dec. 6.--Thcrc are signs of
extensive operations in the Brooklyn navy
yard. The preparatory work for the
nrmored cruiser to be built there is being
pushed. also the work on the double-ter-
rcted monitor Miantonomah. The enter.
prise and Nipsic, which have been under
going repairs, are nearly ready for sea.
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MINNEAPOLIS Out I'm the Cold

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The contest for
the Republican national convention will
soon become very active. The indica-
tons now are that the contest has mar
rowed to three cities-Chicago, Philadel-
phia and New York,
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Patti May Never Sing Again.

New YORK, Dec. "A rumor has been
published here to the effect that Nine.
Patti would be unable to sing again, be-
ing confined to her castle in Wales, suf-
fering from cancer of the stomach.
Those here who are most likely to know
discredit the rumor.
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Grand Forks Lit With Gas.

GRAND FORKS, d. T., Dec. 1.-THE city
was lit up Tuesday night for the first
time with gas. The Chicago Gas & Fuel
company, who had the contract, has COM
pleted the same and turned the plant over
to the Grand Forks syndicate.
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Declines spnrks' Shoes,

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-The Hcrald's Kan.
sas City special says that Judge Phillips,
of that city, who has been mentioned az
likely to be appointed to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Land Com
missioner Sparks, has written to Secre-
tary Lamar stating positively that under
no circumstances will he accept the place
if offered.
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Dakota EARN statisti...

ORDwAY, Dec. 6.-The November re-
port of Statistician Sheridan gives some
readable matter for those interested in
Dakota farming. Dakota this year has
been blest with bountiful crops and has
not been visited by any destructive
storms nor We're the crops injured by in
sects. Yields were as follows: Corn, %,
GAP, $50 bushels; wheat, 53,65s, 40; oats,
81, 45S, $50; barley, 6,4S9, 1870: flax, 1905,
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ProGts on P,osccutinp noodIcr.

CHICAGO. Dec. 2.-The following shows
the total gain financially to Cook county
by the doodle prosecutions: Voluntary
reductions, 1910: stricken from bills
and cancelled warrants, 500, 500: warrants
not to be paid, 1922 ,632; ines paid by
commissioners, $4,000: refunded by
Brainerd, $l0,S24; total, SS32a9, s37.
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rial III onarchy
Dec. ., 1852. This
circumstance is
regarded by the
~lmonarchists rs n
favorable omen TO
their cause, and
hc undoubted
fact that NJ Gre
Wy had intended
to defer the pre-
ScnEltiun. am
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OFFICIAL ELECTION RETURNS.

ALBANY, n. Y, Dec. 6.-The official
returns of the late election. completed
Monday, show the following results for
secretary Of state:
Frederick Cook (Dem.), AGO, 3ss; Fred.
erjck d. Grant f9rrl 4S2 Sill Han.,
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IF the Minneapolis Star News Owls
III interest in the Stark County Her.
aid, and we Judge from the similarity
between the two that it does, it had
better furnish the latter with u load
of coal and save its pditor the labor of
mining it. lie is avcrse to honest la
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A colorcd Mans Ambition.

S%rllSGFlElD. H.. Dec. 1.-S. v. Casey,
one of the colored orators of the capital,
has declared himself a candidate for lieu
tenant-governor upon the Republican
ticket, He avows that he is in the race to
. ayto the finish, and cannot be laughed
out or crowdedout by his enemies IN the
party.
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THE agricultural bureau statistician
gives the number of bushels of the
principal crops of Dakota for this
year us follows: Wheat. 53,65S.47n.oats.
33S,453,2250; corn. 22642.15U; barley. g.
800, $50: flax. 3,YU5, 935.
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A Merchant Navy.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Ex-Senator
Whitthorne, who is Il member of the
house this time, has Il proposition to en-
courage the formation of a merchant
navy, or a general system of developing
commerce by our WI ships SO that we
may have the use of them in case of war.
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jackson Located i'm W-inniu.r.

WINNIPEG, Man, Dec. s.-.A young
man named jackson. in the employ of
the United States government at New
York, who absconded a couple of months
ago with over $40, 600, has been located
here. lie changed his stolen securities
into Canadian money before crossing the
hOrdpr
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The Hcpncpin Canal Project.

PEORIA, Ill, Dec. 2.-Therc is to he an
informal meeting to discuss the canal
project in Chicago OH the Sth inst. Col.
Taylor and Mayor kinscy, of the COM
mittee. have arranged to meet Judge
Prendergast and others and get the pro-
ect i'll shape for presentation to congress.
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In the. senate.

WASHINGTON, ID. c. Dec. G.-After
the reading of the Journal in the
senate, Senator Hoar nov u recess for
haitian hour. The motion was agreed to.
After the recess had been extended for
Il quarter of an hour longer. The commit
tee appointed to wait on the president was
ready to communicate to congress in writ
ing. Several messages were then laid
before the body, including the pressi-
dent message. AT l O'Clock the SELL
ate %reconvened, received the presidents
message and proceeded with the reading.
Nearly every member of the senate was
in his seat and an attentive listener.
Immediately upon the conclusion of the
reading the senate adjourned.
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Hcrry uns Mnilcd His nc,,y.

New YORK, Dec. 2.-The Rev. Charles
\. Berry, of Wolverhampton, England,
has cabled the officials of Plymouth
church acknowledging the receipt of their
cali and stating that his reply would fol-
low by mail.
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In tho House.

WASHINGTON, d. c. Dec. Co., The
proceedings of the house this morn
ing were opened with prayer by the
chaplain. Mr.. Mills, of Texas, offered a
resolution directing the speaker to ap-
point the committees on rules, accounts,
enrolled bills and mileage. Adopted.
The house was then informed that the
president would communicate with the
body forthwith.
Several amendments to the rules were
offered and referred.
AT 1920 a recess was taken till 1:1O.
Upon ~reconvening the presidents annual
message was presented.
The message was listened to with great
attention and greeted with applause. The
house then at 1:50 adjourned until Thurs
day.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 2.-The anarchists have
finally decided to inter the bodies of the
executed men in Mount Greenwood GENE
terry, twenty miles south of the city on
the Chicago & Grand Trunk road. The
site, which is on the apex of the hill, was
donated by the cemetery company.
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George Omitted l.almro, 9o,055: Dewitt c.
Huntington N'ro.,. ll,S5O; Edward Hall
(Labor), 1922: Thomas X. Bcecher
(Greenback,, 953; Preston. LOT: blank,
scattering and defective, LILO: whole
number "f votes. l,041.31J. Cooks
u~luralitY. l1G1
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Oil In Texas,

SAN ANTONIO, Tex Dec. 5.-While
drilling an artesian well six miles east
of this city, petroleum was struck
ut Il depth of 300 fset. The oil
burns freely and also possesses fine lubri-
eating qualities. Several barrels have
been drawn, and the indications point to
a large deposit. The discovery causes
excitement.
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Iowa Democrats,

DEs MONIES, Iowa, Dec. 2.-rhe Dem
ocratic state central committee met here
and closed up the business of the late
campaign. 1t was decided to hold the
next state convention at Dubuque, but
the date was not fixed.
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Dakota LAWS Invalid.

SIOUX FALLS, d. T., Dec. 2.-The Ar
gus-Leader, of this city, in a leading ar
ticle, claims that the laws of Dakota ter
ritory, which have been compiled by Il.
w. Caldwell, eX-territorial auditor, and
Charles II. Price, the Highmore lawyer,
have been invalidated by reason of the
delay in their publication.
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Duluth Air Line to Omaha,

ST. Paul, Dec. 2.-President Fisher, of
the Duluth road, leaves for New York in
the interest of the proposed air line to
Omaha. He says his company will spend
81, 000, 900 in improving dock facilities in
Duluth next wear,
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The Mormon Poetess Is Dead.

SALT LAKE, Utah, Dec. 6.-The Nor
mon poetess, Eliza r. Snow. is dead.
She was the plural wife of Joe Smith at
Nauvoo, and was one of the central fig
ures of the church.
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a Winter Bridge

WlNoNA, Dec. 2.-The Burlington 4
Northern completed its winter bridge
across the Mississippi at Winona Thurs
day night, and trains We're running
across to-day. The bridge is 1900 feet
1onp
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A New Daily for Detroit.

CHICAGO. Dec. G.-P. ]. Delvin, for
mcrly a newspaper man of this city and
now of the Detroit Sunday World, is here
buying Il perfecting press for use on his
paper, which will be issued daily after
Iun
The Dickinson press., 1887-12-10

BERLIN, Dec. "A meeting of the
shareholders of the United German Tele-
graph company was held. The holders
of 19.735 shares present approved the
sale of the company's lines to the governs
D,nnt
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The ASYLUM Row,

YANKToN, d. t., Dec. 3.-The argu-
ment in the quo warranto proceedings
against the old board Of asylum trustees
will be had Wednesday next. The new
board failed to hold its regular monthly
meeting last month and will await the
decision of the court before proceeding
any further,
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date for school COM
missioner in the re-
cent election, was
III Friday
night to Willis b.
Coon. manager of
her campaign, who,
though a Republic
can, gave up his Law
practice for a month
towork for her. Den,
The Dickinson press., 1887-12-10

the vicinity sent wedding gifts of garden
produce, and the Democratic county COM
mittee q silver service with q letter of
Generalization.
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minneapolis Wheat Kece,nts.

MlNNEArolls, Dec. s. The wheat re-
ceipts this year promise to reach the
amazing figures of A 5000, 900 bushels.
Last year they We're 81, 200, 900. The
Minneapolis receipts SO far exceed those
of Duluth, Milwaukee and Chicago COM
| hipad
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rarking-h"uscs Operations.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Dec. 7.-Thc Silber-
horn packing house has commenced
operations. About 200 men were put to
work. 1t will he fully a week yet before
the establishment will be in full opera
ton. The Fowler packing house is being
pushed to completion as rapidly as posi-
lilo
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President of switzerland Elected.

lsEENE. Dec. 6.-The council of
state has elected NJ. Gavard, of Cen
eva, president and NJ. Schoch, of Shaft
hansen. vice president of Switzerland.
Both are radicals.
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minnesota Poultry SHOW.

ST, PAUL, Dec. 1.-The second annual
exhibition of the Minnesota State Poultry
association is taking place here About
700 fouls are on exhibition.
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Shook by Earthuuake.

ROME, Dec. 6.-The town of Bisignano,
in Calbria sustained severe shocks Of
earthquake, by which twenty houses
We're destroyed and several persons killed.
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LONDON, Dec. SIT is certainty re-
markable that President Grevy should
have resigned on the day which marks
the anniversary Of the two events which
comprised the beginning and the success
full ending of the coup d'ctat of Napoleon
III his dissolution of the assembly Dec. .,
1851. and the establishment of the imnc-
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1T is sADl-cARNoT.

The New French President Take Up His
Residence al the Elysee.
PARIS, Dec. 3-M. Sadi Carnot is
elected president of the French republic,
having received 600 votes from the ma
tional assembly in congress ut Versailles.
The Dickinson press., 1887-12-10
M Change at rrcscn. of st. Paul sho p

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. "A confer
cncc was held between General Manager
Miller and General Counsel Carey, of the
Chicago, Milwaukee g. st. Paul COM
pany, and a delegation from Dubuque in
regard to the rumorcd removal of the
railway company's car shops to Dubuque.
Manager Miller assured the delegation
that nothing further would be lone in
the matter without informing the city
nf1iria1c
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GREvY GIVES IN.
The French President nj Last
Succumbs to the CIamOr for
HIS Resignation.
BY a Coincidence It Comes on the
Anniversary of the First Re-
public's Downfall.

PARIS, Dec. 9.-Prcsidcnt Grevy he's
sent his message of designation To the
chamber of deputies. \. session of the
morning Mt Versailles to elect his sue
CcSSOr.